An Early Night
Would you like your children to be sound asleep by 7 pm? Here’s how to do it:
When your child is 11 years and 51 weeks, old, arrange a birthday sleepover. It’s late notice, so assume some of those invited won’t be able to make it. They’ll almost all make it.
Have the party and sleepover. The exact numbers probably don’t matter, but my experience is that 18 extra children (plus the six we started with) at the party, and 16 (plus the six we started with) who stayed the night, works well.
Extra adults are useful, especially if they have experience of Cub Camp and can do the Akela-at-midnight glare 
Next day, let them all hang out and play.
It seems that the above was a very effective (if not, perhaps, efficient) way to get children into bed and asleep by 7 p.m. At least, it worked for mine tonight 
There’ll be photos along once I’ve had some sleep myself
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rofl!
yes, lol! Will it still work the night after New Year’s Eve do you think, or is that exempt being as you’re *supposed* to stay up until midnight that night anyway? Our girls are having a joint birthday sleepover new year’s party that night, so I have it all to look forward to!
*Insert swearwwords of your choice* - I thought Sarah was crazy having 10 extra kids to aleep over, having 16 just seems like masochism of the highest order! We had 3 extra last night (well, 4, but one was no problem) and they managed to dance and sing (and brush their teeth) until well after 3 am. Still, am hoping for an early night here tonight!
Honestly, I think once you get past about, erm, six… a few extra doesn’t make much difference
And a great time was had by all! Thanks for inviting us and letting A get all the shopping done! Even have half of it wrapped already
Woohoo - she comments!
I didn’t even realise A had gone out until he phoned